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South Africa’s Jacob Zuma resigns after pressure from party

South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned after intense pressure from his own party. In a televised statement he...

BY admindiploma
February 15, 2018
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Ethiopian journalist refuses to sign confession form in exchange for...

Ethiopian journalist and blogger, Eskinder Nega’s freedom is in doubt after he reportedly refused to sign a ‘false confession form’...

BY admindiploma
February 11, 2018
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China to support establishment of African Union office in Beijing

The Chinese government says it is ready to support a plan by the African Union (A.U.) to establish a representational...

BY admindiploma
February 11, 2018
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Kabila ready to handover power, set to name successor in...

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila will not contest in elections when they are next held,...

BY admindiploma
February 6, 2018
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Israel issues ultimatum to African migrants

Israel on Sunday began warning thousands of African migrants that they must leave by the end of March, officials said,...

BY admindiploma
February 5, 2018
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WANEP urges AU to re-engage Kenyatta and Odinga

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Africa’s largest peacebuilding organisation, has called on the African Union (AU) to re-engage...

BY admindiploma
February 2, 2018
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Kenya govt declares Odinga’s resistance movement a criminal group

The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National Resistance Movement (NRM) as an illegal entity....

BY admindiploma
January 31, 2018
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Human rights bodies condemn media shutdown in Kenya

The Kenyan authorities “violated the public’s right to information” by blocking broadcasts of TV channels that defied a ban on...

BY admindiploma
January 31, 2018
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Kenya’s Raila Odinga ‘inaugurates’ himself as president

Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has declared himself the “people’s president” at a controversial “swearing-in” ceremony in the capital....

BY admindiploma
January 30, 2018
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George Weah to revise constitution and reduce his salary

Liberia’s newly sworn-in President George Weah pledged to cut his own salary by a quarter on Monday, in a nationwide...

BY admindiploma
January 30, 2018
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